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  • Crack recorded in the sea ice along the Antarctic Peninsula by
  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's MODIS Rapid Response on 2 January, 2009
    A crack recorded in the sea ice along the Antarctic Peninsula (file photo): There are new projections in sea-level rise caused by the accelerating rates of loss from ice sheets
  • A man provides water for his livestock in south Mudug, central Somalia
  • This family has lost all their livestock to the drought
  • This animal has succumbed to the effects of the drought in south Mudug, central Somalia
    This camel has succumbed to the effects of drought in south Mudug, central Somalia
  • Dambisa Moyo, author of Dead Aid
  • A camel shown here suffering the effects of the drought in south Mudug, central Somalia
    Livestock are suffering in the prolonged drought that has hit Sool region (file photo)
  • Many people have begun stocking up on basic commodities in fear of possible violence and turmoil
  • Rogniat Sud, built in 1830 by the French as an army barracks, now serves as classroom and workshop for unemployed youths eager to learn a trade
    Rogniat Sud, built in 1830 by the French as an army barracks, now serves as classroom and workshop for unemployed youths eager to learn a trade
  • Saint-Louis, some 260km north of Dakar, was named a World Heritage Site in 2000. Since then, the colonial architecture is crumbling and badly in need of renovation
  • Ibra Niang, 22, was struggling to raise enough money for a place at one of Senegal's few vocational schools when he heard of the schools-workshop project in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Now he is studying masonry and working on historic building preservation
  • Young Senegalese get to practice their skills on the worksite of a historic colonial building in Saint-Louis. The trainees will use their new skills to renovate a crumbling World Heritage Site
  • Average Afghan woman gives birth to 6-7 children, according to UNFPA
  • The use of contraceptives can help reduce maternal mortality, health specialists say
    The use of contraceptives can help reduce maternal mortality, health specialists say
  • Parked gendarmerie truck, Antananarivo
  • Barriers to getting women into power must be removed, says NGO Oxfam, including having to be a member of a political party, attend meetings, pay taxes, and pay money to the party
  • Barriers to getting women into power must be removed, says NGO Oxfam, including having to be a member of a political party, attend meetings, pay taxes, and pay money to the party
  • Barriers to getting women into power must be removed, says NGO Oxfam, including having to be a member of a political party, attend meetings, pay taxes, and pay money to the party before running for election
  • Marie Jalloh, MP for Bombali district, one of 17 female MPs out of a total 120
  • Marie Jalloh, MP for Bombali district, one of seventeen female MPs in Sierra Leone, out of a total of 120
  • A young TMVP cadre gathers T56 machine guns and hands them over to an army soldier at the end of the arms handover ceremony on 7 March
  • Opposition protestors, Antananarivo
    Opposition protestors demonstrate in Antananarivo
  • Food insecurity is increasing in poor areas of both eastern and western Nepal due to poor harvests and high prices for imported food, oil and transportation
    Food insecurity is increasing in poor areas of both eastern and western Nepal due to poor harvests and high prices for imported food, oil and transportation
  • Hannah (not her real name), 16, from Makeni, capital of Bombali district, dropped out of school in 2007 when she became pregnant.
  • British sterling pound
  • Ramatu Kanu, deputy director of education in Bombali district in northern Sierra Leone
    Ramatu Kanu, deputy education director for Bombali district
  • Madagascar blog club
  • Children have been killed injured and traumatized in the conflict zones. Multiple displacements have disrupted the education of at least 60,000 children in Sri Lanka's north, according to UNICEF, which has pre-positioned educational supplies for 80,000 st
    More than one in four children now in transits sites are malnourished, according to UNICEF
  • LPHU head Sylvana Lakkis meets Interior Minister Ziad Baroud. “If you cannot vote in an independent way your voice cannot really be heard,” she said
  • June’s parliamentary elections will be the first in which disabled access to polling stations is mapped
    June’s parliamentary elections will be the first in which disabled access to polling stations is mapped
  • Danny Abu Haidar had to be carried into a polling station in Beirut’s 2007 bi-election. A recent government decree aims to improve disabled access
  • Cholera - Vibrio cholerae
    Vibrio cholerae: The number of people infected in Msambweni and Kwale districts has reached 250, according to to the Msambweni’s District Medical Officer (file photo)
  • The OneLove campaign is a regional initiative spanning nine countries over a period of five years
    The multi-country, multi-partner OneLove campaign represents a new, more unified approach to HIV prevention

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